BRAKE TAG

BRAKE TAG

1 ounce bourbon

1 ounce amaretto

1 ounce cranberry juice

1 maraschino cherry or lemon slice to garnish

Happy Dads Day to all the great father’s out there — especially the ones who remember that the best way to be a good father is to first be a good husband and keep your marriage a happy one. I am lucky enough to have a great Dad and he was lucky enough to spend today on a dream golfing vacation. Since he was out of town, I got to treat Hubby, another great Dad, like a king. Movies, steak, and the U.S. open were on his busy agenda today.

Also on his agenda was the BRAKE TAG cocktail. The recipe is from the cocktail book, In the Land of Cocktails, and is named after the New Orleans slang for inspection stickers on a car. Since Hubby is a bourbon lover, the BRAKE TAG sounded right up his alley. To make it, I used Old Grandad, but any smooth bourbon will do. Just put the bourbon, amaretto and cranberry juice into a cocktail shaker, fill it with ice, shake and pour it, ice and all, into a highball glass. Garnish with a cherry, lemon slice or brake tag, whichever is easiest.

As suspected, Hubby thought the BRAKE TAG was awesome. He really liked the cranberry juice mixed with bourbon. It was something he would have never thought to do on his own. I thought the almond-flavored amaretto liqueur worked well and that is was a really good cocktail, for a bourbon drink. Give it a try, even if you don't like bourbon and be sure to brake for good Dads.

Drink Up^

Cocktail Connie